For through union with him you were enriched in every way-in your power to preach, and in your knowledge of the Truth;

Yet to us God revealed it through his Spirit; for the Spirit fathoms all things, even the inmost depths of God's being.

What, I ask, is Apollos? or what is Paul? Servants through whom you were led to accept the Faith; and that only as the Lord helped each of you.

If any man's work is burnt up, he will suffer loss; though he himself will escape, but only as one who has passed through fire.

Though you may have thousands of instructors in the Faith of Christ, yet you have not many fathers. It was I who, through union with Christ Jesus, became your father by means of the Good News.

Such some of you used to be; but you washed yourselves clean. You became Christ's People! you were pronounced righteous through the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and through the Spirit of our God!

For, through his wife, the husband who is an unbeliever has become associated with Christ's People; and the wife who is an unbeliever has become associated with Christ's People through our Brother whom she has married. Otherwise your children would be 'defiled,' but, as it is, they belong to Christ's People.

Yet for us there is only one God, the Father, from whom all things come (and for him we live), and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things come (and through him we live).

And so, through this knowledge of yours, the weak man is ruined-your Brother for whose sake Christ died!

I want you to bear in mind, Brothers, that all our ancestors were beneath the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

To one is given the power to speak with wisdom through the Spirit; to another the power to speak with knowledge, due to the same Spirit;

But it is through the love of God that I am what I am, and the love that he showed me has not been wasted. No, I have toiled harder than any of them, and yet it was not I, but the love of God working with me.

For, since through a man there is death, so, too, through a man there is a resurrection of the dead.

For, as through union with Adam all men die, so through union with the Christ will all be made to live.

Daily I face death-I swear it, Brothers, by the pride in you that I feel through my union with Christ Jesus, our Lord.

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory, through Jesus Christ, our Lord.

I will come to you as soon as I have been through Macedonia- -for I am going through Macedonia-